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蔓

14 strokes
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:
又 艾 日 買
vine, tendril, influence, connections, good offices, spread, sprawl, thrive, rampant, powerful
Kun:
はびこ.る、 つる
On:
マン、 バン
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 蔓延 【マンエン】 spread (e.g. of a disease), rampancy, infestation, proliferation, being widespread
  • まん延防止 【マンエンボウシ】 semi-state of emergency COVID-19 measures

Kun reading compounds

  • 蔓延る 【はびこる】 to become overgrown, to grow thick, to spread, to run rampant, to thrive, to prevail, to become powerful
  • 蔓 【つる】 vine, bine, tendril, runner, bow, temple arm, sidepiece, lug arm, earpiece, part of a pair of glasses that goes over the ear, connections, contacts, influence, financial supporter
  • 蔓脚類 【まんきゃくるい】 Cirripedia, barnacles

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
man4, man2, wan4
Korean:
man

Spanish

Portuguese

French

4039 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2192 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2975 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2074 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
31784X Morohashi
5180 New Nelson (John Haig)
2359 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2445 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3k11.15 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-11 SKIP code
2-4-11 SKIP code
4440.7 Four corner code
1-44-02 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8513 Unicode hex code

茘

9 strokes (also 10)
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:
刀 艾
Variants:
荔
scallion, small onion
Kun:
おおにら
On:
レイ、 リ、 レン

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 茘枝 【レイシ】 litchi (Nephelium litchi), lychee, lichee, litchi nut, bitter melon (Momordica charantia), bitter gourd, Thais bronni (species of muricid gastropod)
  • 茘枝貝 【レイシガイ】 Thais bronni (species of muricid gastropod)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
li4
Korean:
ryeo

Spanish

Portuguese

French

3934 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
924 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
30866X Morohashi
5024 New Nelson (John Haig)
3k6.21 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-6 SKIP code
2-4-6 SKIP code
4422.7 Four corner code
1-72-13 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8318 Unicode hex code

枝

8 strokes
Radical:
tree 木
Parts:
十 又 支 木
bough, branch, twig, limb, counter for branches
Kun:
えだ
On:
シ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 5
JLPT level N2
1401 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 枝 【シ】 counter for long, thin things (i.e. swords)
  • 枝葉 【エダハ】 branches and leaves, foliage, unimportant details, nonessentials, side issue, digression
  • 整枝 【セイシ】 training (branches in horticulture)
  • 茘枝 【レイシ】 litchi (Nephelium litchi), lychee, lichee, litchi nut, bitter melon (Momordica charantia), bitter gourd, Thais bronni (species of muricid gastropod)

Kun reading compounds

  • 枝 【えだ】 branch, bough, limb, twig, sprig, spray
  • 枝葉 【えだは】 branches and leaves, foliage, unimportant details, nonessentials, side issue, digression
  • 若枝 【わかえだ】 young branch, shoot, sprig, scion
  • 細枝 【ほそえだ】 twig, wand

Readings

Japanese names:
え、 ぐさ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zhi1, qi2
Korean:
ji

Spanish

  • rama
  • bifurcación

Portuguese

  • ramagem
  • ramo
  • galho
  • tronco

French

  • branche
  • rameau
  • brindille
  • compteur de branches
719 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
1315 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1154 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2211 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
889 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
626 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
631 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
870 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
889 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
972 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1074 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1073 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
579 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
767 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
720 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
14557 Morohashi
863 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2591 New Nelson (John Haig)
713 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
770 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
684 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1867 2001 Kanji
4a4.18 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-4 SKIP code
4494.7 Four corner code
1-27-62 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
679d Unicode hex code